As a GC, you need to consider how disparate functions that govern information often fail to coordinate efforts and approaches. This is where you have the opportunity to decrease risk and increase value.

Even in circumstances where the legal team will eventually be required to go through the entire e-discovery process, data mining can be leveraged to uncover key facts first and bring the most pressing evidence to light quickly.

Most companies have controls in place to stop fraud, waste and abuse and comply with growing regulatory requirements. General counsel, along with the board and executive management, are responsible for knowing whether those controls actually work, with organizational and individual consequences if they don’t.